Biden's order to stop issuing oil and gas leases on public lands, or offshore, was temporarily blocked by a judge. It may be blocked permanently.

We have to keep this in perspective. If this comparatively small action is a "key" part of Biden's efforts to avoid global heating disaster, it's because what he has done so far is small. He has proposed legislation to do more, but Manchin and Sinema are blocking those bills. Unless we do a lot more, our future is hosed.

Thugs in Lahore demanded gratis burgers at a restaurant. The staff said no, so the thugs returned the next day and arrested all the staff, leaving the restaurant unattended, even the machines that heat oil for frying. This risked causing injuries or a fire. Fortunately that didn't happen.

Reportedly the thugs have been suspended. They deserve more punishment than that; what they did was corrupt.

Prefabricated small houses, to fit in spaces which used to hold garages, can provide a lot more housing comparatively quickly.

June 19 is Juneteenth, a new federal holiday which celebrates the freeing of slaves in the defeated confederacy.

It was not the end of discrimination by law against blacks — that continued into the 1960s and was ended by the civil rights movement. Systemic racism continues to this day. So we still need more change in that area.

US citizens: call on Pelosi and Schumer to give the Pentagon none of the infrastructure plan money.

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